PLAYED AT: Yublieyny Ice PalaceDate: May 14, 2016GAME NOTES: TALBOT GETS SHUTOUT AS CANADA BLANKS SLOVAKS AT WORLDS
DAVID BRIEN
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Derick Brassard (Hull, Que./New York Rangers, NHL) led a balanced offence with a goal and an assist, and Canada’s National Men’s Team improved to 5-0 at the 2016 IIHF World Championship with a 5-0 win over Slovakia on Saturday.
The Canadians kept pace with Finland atop Group B, clinched a quarter-final spot and ran their world championship winning streak to 15 games, including last year’s unbeaten run to gold in the Czech Republic.
Morgan Rielly (West Vancouver, B.C./Toronto, NHL), Matt Duchene (Haliburton, Ont./Colorado, NHL), Taylor Hall (Kingston, Ont./Edmonton, NHL) and Mark Scheifele (Kitchener, Ont./Winnipeg, NHL) had the other goals for Canada, which has outscored its opponents 30-4 through five games.
Cam Talbot (Caledonia, Ont./Edmonton, NHL) made 18 saves for his fourth win and second shutout.
The opening goal came just past the 11-minute mark of the first period when Brassard won a face-off back to Rielly, who snuck a point shot through a screen and past Slovakian goaltender Julius Hudacek.
The Canadians made it 2-0 with 90 seconds left in the opening frame; Brad Marchand (Hammonds Plains, N.S./Boston, NHL) intercepted a puck along the end-boards before setting up Duchene for a one-timer.
Canada doubled its lead with a pair of goals in the second period, beginning with a power-play tally from Hall, who finished off a pretty set-up from Mark Stone (Winnipeg, Man./Ottawa, NHL) and Connor McDavid (Newmarket, Ont./Edmonton, NHL) at 13:56.
Hall has now scored in all five Canadian games, and his six goals leave him tied with Swedish forward Gustav Nyquist for the tournament lead.
Just under five minutes after the Hall goal, Sam Reinhart (West Vancouver, B.C./Buffalo, NHL) made a pass from behind the goal line to Scheifele, who danced around a Slovak defenceman before sliding in the 4-0 goal.
Brassard finished the scoring midway through the third period, redirecting a Corey Perry (Peterborough, Ont./Anaheim, NHL) pass past Hudacek at the side of the net.
Talbot made more than half of his saves in the second period, when Slovakia held an 11-9 advantage in shots on goal. He has a tournament-leading 0.75 goals-against average and .960 save percentage.
Overall, Canada outshot the Slovaks 33-18.
The Canadians see the ice next against France on Monday, live on TSN at 9:15 a.m. ET/6:15 a.m. PT.

Visiting Team: Canada
Assistant Coach: Mike Yeo

Home Team: Slovakia

CANADA LINEUP

Pos

No.

Name

G

31

Pickard, Calvin

G

33

Talbot, Cam

4

Hall, Taylor

5

Ceci, Cody

7

Matheson, Michael

8

Tanev, Chris

9

Duchene, Matt

10

Hutton, Ben

11

Gallagher, Brendan

14

Dumba, Matt

16

Domi, Max

19

Brassard, Derick

23

Reinhart, Sam

24

Perry, Corey

27

Murray, Ryan

38

Jenner, Boone

44

Rielly, Morgan

55

Scheifele, Mark

61

Stone, Mark

63

Marchand, Brad

90

O'Reilly, Ryan

97

McDavid, Connor

CANADA PENALTIES

Per.

No.

Min

Offence

Off

PP

PS

Start

On

1st

61

2:00

(auto) Interference minor

3:41

1

3:41

18:19

2nd

9

2:00

(auto) Hooking minor

7:32

1

7:32

14:28

SLOVAKIA LINEUP

Pos

No.

Name

G

33

Hudacek, Julius

G

42

Konrad, Branislav

2

Sekera, Andrej

8

Sersen, Michal

10

Reway, Martin

13

Jurco, Tomas

14

Meszaros, Andrej

15

Svarny, Ivan

21

Cehlarik, Peter

22

Dravecký , Vladimir

25

Viedensky, Marek

26

Mikus, Juraj

28

Skalicky, Pavol

41

Lusnak, Patrik

51

Granak, Dominik

56

Dano, Marko

59

Stastny, Andrej

61

Bartanus, Marek

62

Jaros, Christian

65

Marcinko , Tomás

79

Hudacek, Libor

80

Hrnka, Tomas

83

Bakos, Martin

SLOVAKIA PENALTIES

Per.

No.

Min

Offence

Off

PP

PS

Start

On

1st

21

2:00

(auto) Hooking minor

7:40

1

7:40

14:20

1st

62

2:00

Tripping minor

11:46

1

11:46

10:14

2nd

22

2:00

(auto) Interference minor

1:53

1

1:53

0:07

2nd

56

2:00

Tripping minor

12:42

1

12:42

9:18

3rd

2

2:00

Slashing minor

0:39

1

0:39

1:21

3rd

2

2:00

Tripping minor

11:02

1

11:02

10:58

CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

SLOVAKIA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st

11:09

44-19

1st

18:30

9-63

2nd

13:56

PP

4-61-97

2nd

18:35

55-23-61

3rd

10:27

19-24-27

SLOVAKIA Goals

SLOVAKIA PLAYERS (plus)

CANADA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES

CANADA

1 / 6

SLOVAKIA

0 / 2

PENALTY SUMMARY

CANADA

4 min / 2 inf

SLOVAKIA

12 min / 6 inf

POINT SUMMARY

CANADA

5 G + 8 A = 13 Pts

SLOVAKIA

0 G + A = 0 Pts

SCORING

1

2

3

Total

CANADA

2

2

1

5

SLOVAKIA

0

0

0

0

GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time)

1

2

3

Tot.

On

Off

CAN - Talbot (60:00) (W)

4

11

3

18

/0:00

3rd/20:00

SVK - Hudacek (60:00) (L)

12

7

9

28

/0:00

3rd/20:00

Stars of the Game

TIME OF GAME:

-

Start:

1:15 PM

-

End:

1:15 PM

-

Attendance:

0

OFFICIALS

Referee:

Referee:

Linesman:

Linesman:

CERTIFIED CORRECT

This report has been checked and verified against the Official IIHF World Championship Game Report.